Norfolk's holiday lines also relied on London traffic
I enjoyed Stephen Roberts’ article ‘Norfolk Holiday Lines’ (Steam World, May 2023). However, it was not the case that ‘The whole of Norfolk's holiday traffic was undermined’ by the closure of the M&GN because it severed East Anglia's link with The Midlands. For Norfolk resorts, London was at least as big a source of holidaymakers as the Midlands and North. On a peak season Saturday in 1959 my former home town of Great Yarmouth (by far the county's largest resort) was served by 19 trains from Liverpool Street. The closure of the M&GN had no impact on services from London other than the demise of the Holiday Camps Express which ran from Liverpool Street to Caister-on Sea and which travelled on M&GN metals for the last few miles from North Walsham.
As for services from the Midlands and North, following the announcement in late 1958 of the proposed closure of the M&GN from March 2 1959,
